蕾·阿曼特劳特诗歌初论

On the Poetry of Rae Armantrout

2010年普利策诗歌奖得主蕾·阿曼特劳特是当代美国西海岸语言诗派杰出代表诗人,她视创作为思考的方式,不懈记录着的对美国社会及存在本质的观察和思考。她善用拼贴,将来自不同语境、看似毫无关联的"淘来语"片段跨界混搭,显示了高超的语言重组能力和人文关怀。她的诗用词精简,诗行短促,常常用数字或星号分割成独立小节,以出其不意的断句换行再现思维的断裂和知识的局限,深具威廉姆斯式的极简主义风格,弥漫着浓郁的怀疑主义色彩。

Rae Armantrout,winner of the 2010Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,is a prominent representative of the West Coast Language Poets.She regards poetry as a way of thinking and records constantly her close observations and quizzical reflections on American society and the essence of existence.Adept at collaging,she juxtaposes seemingly incompatible or even conflicting snippets of'found language'that come from varied contexts,manifesting exquisite competence in language reconfiguration and humanistic concern.Concise,elliptical,and often divided by numbers or asterisks into separate sections,her poems reveal the'fissures and gaps'of the mind and the limits of knowledge with unpredictable line breaks,thereby characterizing her poetry with distinct Williams-esque minimalism and a heavy cast of skepticism.